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"The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful of meteors. Now that we see it for the hundredth time we call it, in the hideous and blasphemous phrase of Wordsworth, "the light of common day." We are inclined to increase our claims. We are inclined to demand six suns, to demand a blue sun, to demand a green sun. Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that original dark, in which we have neither sight nor expectation, we can give no hearty and childlike praise to the splendid sensationalism of things."
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"Expect to wonder to find wonder."
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"Wonder at everything and ask, why?Love everything and wonder, why?"
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"I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship..."
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"...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth."
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"Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again."
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"It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded..."
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"The universe is full of doors."
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"The table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise."
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"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."
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"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
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"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."
Change
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Society
"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
Fun
"There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial."
Integrity
"We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting."
Peace
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
Governance
"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
Perspective
"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."
Health
"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
Nature
"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
Strength
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